Nancy Salzer

Areas of Expertise

Film; Screenwriting; Women and Film


Email: salzer@brandeis.edu

Current Project

Nancy will focus on writing a screenplay for The House She built (working title).

Biography

Nancy Salzer’s films and videos have shown at museums, festivals, educational institutions, and conferences around the USA, Canada, and Europe, on PBS and cable.  Screenings include: Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Film Festival, Harvard Film Archives/Short and Edgy: Experimental Videos by Women, Museums of Modern Art (New York City and San Francisco),  National Film Board of Canada.  Conferences include 21st Century Motherhood/University of Houston; Mothering, Law, Politics and Public Policy/York Univ; Family, Kinship and Cultural Studies/Kansas State; and NEH Humanities Seminar (Motherhood and the Nation-State, Stanford University). Her work has received funding from the NEA, American Film Institute, Mass Cultural Council, New York and Connecticut Humanities Council, Bunting Institute (now Radcliffe Institute) and Mellon Foundation (Fellowship at Cal Arts).  In 2007, she was Video Installation Coordinator for the Tiger By the Tail exhibition at the Rose Art Museum, one facet of the larger WSRC exhibition of contemporary art by women artists of India.  Nancy has taught screenwriting, film/video production and film studies at the University of California/Irvine and in the Boston area.  She currently teaches at Emerson College and will offer a Fall 2008 screenwriting course at Brandeis.

Education

M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art

B.A., Columbia University

Representative Publications

Videos:

Salzer, Nancy.  Excerpts from the Mother Tapes.

Salzer, Nancy.  Survival of a Small City.